#16 Baylor Opens as 1.5-Point Favorite Over Texas, Line Now Bears -2.5

The newly-minted #16 Baylor Bears welcome the unranked Texas Longhorns to McLane Stadium on Saturday morning at 11 AM on ABC in a game that, as Travis noted yesterday, presents a tremendous opportunity for Baylor to continue a realistic march toward a potential Big 12 Championship Game berth. With respect to that game, Vegas has the Bears as a very slight favorite thus far; the line opened at Baylor -1.5 yesterday afternoon before moving as high as -3.5 and then settling at -2.5 (at least for now) according to VegasInsider.com. The O/U is currently 62.

My SP+-to-spread conversion divining rod has never been particularly astute, but it seems like Bill C’s metrics would agree with Baylor…